Journal
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jmse10060828
Keywords
reef; channel; wave; water level; runup; flooding
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- U.S. Department of Interior
- U.S. Geological Survey
- U.S. Department of Defense [RC-2334]
- Deltares Strategic Research in the Natural Hazards Program
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Many populated, tropical coastlines with fringing coral reefs are at risk of wave-driven marine flooding, which is attributed to shore-normal channels. Understanding the influence of these channels on runup and flooding is crucial for predicting high runup events along the coastline.
Many populated, tropical coastlines fronted by fringing coral reefs are exposed to wave-driven marine flooding that is exacerbated by sea-level rise. Most fringing coral reefs are not alongshore uniform, but bisected by shore-normal channels; however, little is known about the influence of such channels on alongshore variations on runup and flooding of the adjacent coastline. We conducted a parametric study using the numeric model XBeach that demonstrates that a shore-normal channel results in substantial alongshore variations in waves, wave-driven water levels, and the resulting runup. Depending on the geometry and forcing, runup is greater either on the coastline adjacent to the channel terminus or at locations near the alongshore extent of the channel. The impact of channels on runup increases for higher incident waves, lower incident wave steepness, wider channels, a narrower reef, and shorter channel spacing. Alongshore variation of infragravity waves is predominantly responsible for large-scale variations in runup outside the channel, whereas setup, sea-swell waves, and very-low frequency waves mainly increase runup inside the channel. These results provide insight into which coastal locations adjacent to shore-normal channels are most vulnerable to high runup events, using only widely available data such as reef geometry and offshore wave conditions.
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